Category Archives: Sweden

The IX international MediaBarCamp 26 — 29 May 2016 Lithuania The 9th international MediaBarCamp 2016 (MBC2016) is a unique social media non-conference event, that will take place on 26-29 May, 2016 in Lithuania and will bring together activists from Belarus … Continue reading →

The Swedish Palace in Istanbul has a wonderful series of activities varying from network meetings, digital gatherings and film nights. The season finale of the film nights of this year took place on June 4th, 2015 with the screening … Continue reading →

Tonight, a new series of events (Popcorn Nights) have set off with the screening of #TPB #AFK at the Swedish Palace in Istanbul, or in other words Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul. However strange it felt to watch this … Continue reading →

Is the Gothenborg-based NetClean software as innocent as it is presented or is it used for silencing political dissent? (Original on PirateTimes) Are Turkey’s notorious attempts to limit freedom of expression on the Internet adopting yet another powerful tool? This … Continue reading →

Recently there have been many controversial remarks by Swedish politicians concerning racism, discrimination and intolerance to non-Swedish identities. Lastly in an interview to Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy Ministry of Justice Tobias Billström said “Sometimes we have … Continue reading →

I have grown up adoring Europe from the very corner of it; just nearby yet outside. The earliest memory of Europe for me was the Champions’ League opening theme and the starry flag of a continent-wide football event. Over the … Continue reading →

There have been millions of voices rising against the rising power of the Swedish Democrats (SD) in the last many months before the September 19th elections in Sweden. I was among those who wished that the SD would not be able to get enough votes to have representation in the parliament; yet the steady rise of SD has triggered something in my mind. I personally believed that such parties that constitute a danger for democracy should be kept on its knees and not allowed representation. But this just hides the problem for a while and in the meantime it keeps growing and growing, like Amedee (as in Eugene Ionesco’s play). In order to prove that Swedish Democracy is ripened enough with full tolerance for all ideologies –as long as they do not turn into violence- SD will be given a chance in the parliament.Continue reading →